I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best.

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

You are part of nature, and its pulse beats in your veins.

Rain on your body burned my heart. (Pluie sur ton corps - Brûla mon coeur.)

I do what I can, ' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

The past is always a rebuke to the present.

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.